title: Hygienic maintenance of dental handpieces and turbines.
abstract: The controversy over the effective sterilization and disinfection of dental handpieces has engaged the minds of dentists and researchers for years but has been made even more important with the advent of the HI virus and AIDS. In this article, initiated as a project by the FDI Commission, Prof. Dr. Klaus Bofsmann examines some of the problems and solutions of sterilization of dental equipment.
authors.affiliation: Klinik fur Zahnerhaltungskunde und Parodontologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bofsmann
mesh_terms: D003748:Dental Equipment / Q000592:standards*; D003762:Dental Instruments / Q000592:standards*; D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods